Australian Posts

Deals

PS3 Slim On Catch Of The Day For $400 Tomorrow

4:30PM Nick Broughall | If you want to risk almost certain disappointment, Catch of the Day will have the new PS3 Slim console available for $400 with a $50 Paypal cashback via redemption from midday tomorrow. Could be a good deal if you can get it… [Catch of the Day - Thanks Crowyourboat!]
Phones

Get Your Hands On A BlackBerry Bold 9700 Now

3:30PM Nick Broughall | RIM had a lunch launching the BlackBerry Bold 9700 a couple of weeks ago, but I held off sharing because you couldn’t actually buy the phone yet. Well now you can as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have all launched the handset. More »
Entertainment

PS3 PlayTV Bundle: 250GB PS3 With PlayTV For $599

2:30PM Nick Broughall | At this morning’s PlayTV launch, Sony announced that they’ll be bundling the DVR attachment with a new 250GB PS3 console, for $599. That’s not bad value. More »
Entertainment

Everything You Wanted To Know About The PS3’s iView

1:00PM Nick Broughall | This morning, Sony had a big launch for their new PlayTV device (more on that later today) and an official launch for the iView service. The good news is that all those early issues we have with iView on the PS3 are going to get better. More »
History of TV

SED: The TV That Never Was (And Probably Never Will Be…)

12:00PM Nick Broughall | Back in 2004, Canon – a company known for their cameras – got together with Toshiba to announce the Next Big Thing in TV technology: SED. Five years later, SED has become the television equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever – a lofty concept that sounded great, but we’ve given up on ever seeing its arrival. More »
Entertainment

Last Chance To RSVP For Byteside

12:00PM Nick Broughall | Tonight’s the last night for this season of Byteside, the brain child of former Giz editor Seamus. If you’re in Sydney tonight and fancy sharing a few beers with like-minded geeks, make sure you RSVP. Tonight’s shows will be a retrospective look back at the past decade, and the highs and lows of both technology and games. I’ll be there, so make sure you say G’day! More »
Online

Queensland MP Taking The Fight To Atkinson’s R18+ Games Ratings Refusal

11:46AM Nick Broughall | It’s all well and good for us consumers to bitch about the lack of an R18+ rating in video games, but it’s another thing altogether when politicians start doing it for us. The Hon Kate Jones MP has sponsored a government petition up in Queensland to bring change to the current classifications scheme. More »
Breakfast Wrap

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night

History of TV

Television In The Third Dimension

12:00PM Nick Broughall | The human body is a marvellous thing. The very fact that we have two eyes means that we view everything in three dimensions, a talent that cannot be overstated. However, for years, television engineers have been trying to develop ways that we can trick our brains into thinking that we can see a three dimensional image from a two-dimensional screen. And now it’s the Next Big Thing in TVs. More »